Uploaded by rovingeye2 on Jun 15, 2009
Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist. Silver is known for his distinctive humorous and funky playing style and for his pioneering compositional contributions to hard bop. Silver was influenced by a wide range of musical styles, notably gospel music, African music, and Latin American music and sometimes ventured into the soul jazz genre.
Song for My Father is a 1964 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares Silver, to whom the title song was dedicated.
A jazz standard, "Song for My Father" is here in its original form. It is a Bossa Nova in F-minor with an AAB head. On the head, a trumpet and tenor saxophone play in harmony. The song has had a noticeable impact in pop music. The opening bass piano notes were borrowed by Steely Dan for their song "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", while the opening horn riff was borrowed by Stevie Wonder for his song "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing".
Horace Silver — piano
Carmell Jones — trumpet
Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone
Teddy Smith — bass
Roger Humphries — drums
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only 200k views??? give me a break... this deserves so much more
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4:21 onwards is JIIIIIIIZZZZZZ
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playing this song in jazz band. oh ya
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always good..
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I played this when I was in highschool, good times!
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Sounds like beautiful elevator music
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Ahh...This is some real music, I'm feeling so relaxed now.
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good
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My brother introduced me to Jazz thru HS Quintet.....I was hooked forever!
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Joe Henderson is on the sax btw... most you may know that, but some were just shoutin out Horace, which of course is necessary, but let's not forget Henderson rippin it!
chrhul 7 months ago 26
i have to learn this solo for jazz band. Holy crap this is gunna take a while. Its insane just looking at the paper for it! And ontop of that i am in the middle of Bumble Boogie for Piano, so i am preety much full on music. Thats probably why im getting a c in math lol
hovercat26 3 months ago 6